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tionably this species. Yieillot knew the other species, which he 
figured and described in the same work. Bonaparte called it 
Seiurus motacilla in 1850, though in 1824 he had called the other 
species Turdus motacilla, and Cabanis, in 1857, Henicocichla mo- 
tacilla ; but writers have usually adopted Audubon’s term ludovici- 
amts, proposed in 1832, notwithstanding that this author soon 
abandoned his species, under the wrong impression it was not dif- 
ferent from S. ncevius. Siurus motacilla ” is not a very choice 
name, meaning wagta^iled Wagtail,” but it is no worse than Mus 
muscidits, Xanthocephaliis. icterocephalus, Columba palumbus, Regidus 
satrapa, and a host of other names, the two terms of 'which mean 
the same thing ; nor as bad as Sialia sialis, Cupidonia cupido, the 
sense and sound of which agree. 
I append the synonymy of the species of this genus, the list of 
names here to be given being much more accurate, more extensive, 
and more nearly complete than any hitherto collated : 
1. Siurus auricapillus. 
Motacilla aurocapilla, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 12th ed. 1766, 334, No. 29 
(based on Brisson and Edwards, as below cited). 
Turdus aurocapillus, Lath., Ind. Orn. i, 1790, 328, No. 6. 
Sylvia aurocapilla, Bonap., Journ. Philada. Acad, iv, 1824, 35. 
Seiurus aiLrocapillus, Swains., Philos. Mag. i, 1827, 369 ; Zool. Journ. hi. 
1827, 171. 
Seiurus aurocapillus, D’Orbig., Ois. Cuba, 1839, 55. 
Siurus aurocapillus, ScL. & Salv., Ibis, i, 1859, 9. — A. & E. Newt., ibid. 
142. 
Enicocichla aurocapilla, “ Gray.” (Keference not at hand as I write.) 
Enicocichla aurocapillus, Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. vii, 1860, 306. 
Henicocichla aurocapillus, Caban., Mus. Hein, i, 1850, 16. 
Turdus auricapillus, Light., “Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog. 1830, 2”; Journ. f. 
Orn. 1863, 57. (Orig. ref. not verified by me.) 
Accentor auricapillus, Kich., Eep. Brit. Assoc, for 1836, 1837, 172. 
Seiurus auricapillus, Bonap., Consp. Av. 1850, 306. 
Henicocichla auricapilla, Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc. 1856, 293. 
Siurus auricapillus, CouES, Birds Colorado Valley, 187-, (MSS. ined.), 
Turdus citreus, 111 Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. 1776, 141 (very problem- 
atical). 
Motacilla canadensis, Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl. 1783, 24 (in part ; the 
first ref., to P. E. 398, f. 2, and the ref. to Edw. Gl. 252, are to this sp., 
but the other refs, are to Dendrceca coronata). 
Turdus minimus, Bartr., Trav. Fla., 1st Am. ed. 1791, 290bis (not of 
Lafr., nor of authors). 
